For weeks and months I and the rest of the F.A.V.E production crew have been knocking out and planning our work for the F.A.V.E. Jamboree and as well as for Episode 2.

The F.A.V.E Jamobree is a network for college bound kids coming from highschool and as well as people who are interested in the industry of entertainment. It was geared to entertain and teach people about the world of entertainment and how far it has come a long way.

It was great guiding some of these kids to where my first passion started and rejuvenated my creativity to another level. The show and the jam gave me the time to think of what I need to do in order to get into the professional level. This was a whole another experience added to what I loved doing.

It was a big event over 200 kids from different high schools came and was featured on The Press Enterprise News  for Inland Southern California.

Event on multimedia careers aims to get high school students thinking visually as they make video

By GAIL WESSON
The Press-Enterprise MENIFEE – It’s all for show, but when Murrieta Valley High School senior Kyle Roach called for quiet on the set in a stern tone, his peers took notice.

With three other students on the set under bright studio lights, it was time to film an intro, and for student camera operators to get their practice, too.

This segment of “Investigation: Animation” will not make it to the airwaves of cable station KZSW in Temecula because the high school students on Friday were just getting a taste of what Mt. San Jacinto College students are learning in video production, 3-D animation and other multimedia programs offered at the Menifee Valley campus.

Ethan Sisson, left, 19, of Menifee, films Kurt Roeper, right, 16, of Canyon Lake, during a green screen presentation.

Mt. San Jacinto College’s Festival of Animation and Video Entertainment’s fall jamboree all day Friday gave students and teachers an opportunity to learn more about video and animation through lectures, demonstrations and some hands-on experience, such as the film.

The college is in the second year of a two-year, $250,000 state grant intended to strengthen career and technical education and create a pipeline between high school and the college.

Some high schools already work with the college to create accredited multimedia courses that will earn students college credit if they transfer to the community college.

Rancho Vista High School in Temecula, San Jacinto High School and Murrieta Valley High School are among those with accredited classes. Other schools, including West Valley High in Hemet, are working on it, according to Don Smith, college instructor and multimedia chairman.

Students will have a chance to enter videos and 3-D animation projects in a competition at the college this spring.

Rodrigo Peña / The Press-Enterprise Mark Gines, 29, left, of Menifee, shows Stephanie Spencer, 16, of Murrieta, how to work the video camera while Shane Moore looks on. Mt. San Jacinto College's Festival of Animation and Video Entertainment's fall jamboree Friday at the Menifee campus gave high school students an opportunity to learn more about video and animation.

West Valley students will be entering a video documentary showing how their school’s “High School Musical” spring production is put together.

“They are giving us ideas what we need to do with our film” to win, said Jonathan Frisby 17, a West Valley senior. He said he’ll be behind the cameras with classmates Shane Archer, 18, and Justin Dunn, 16.

Frisby wants to be an electrical engineer but plans to enhance his video skills with Mt. San Jacinto classes. Dunn will enlist in the Army after graduation but already has his eye on opportunities to do documentary and training videos in the military.

“Today is about giving you the seed. … We’re giving you a taste of what is out there,” Smith told students during a 3-D animation presentation. The award-winning 3-D expert started in 1980, and his credits include 1983’s “The Last Starfighter,” one of the early films to use 3-D.

He and other presenters emphasized how multimedia skills may be the ticket to jobs or, combined with other skills, will give them an advantage in the job market.

Nathan Budzinski, right, 18, from Menifee, and Aunjuli Meggs, 17, of Lake Elsinore, listen how to make a light saber glow using a video software program.

Traffic accident reconstruction, crime-solving tools like on the TV show “CSI,” and even simulations done for prospective corporate investors all use multimedia skills, Smith said.

West Valley instructors Stacey Bailey and Rod Martel brought 20 students to the festival. The video their students will shoot in spring also will be sent to Disney, which solicits student work, Bailey said.

The event also awakened an interest for junior Bree Smith, 16, an artist who frequently doodles.

At the event, she discovered storyboarding, where artists render concept drawings. She wants to learn more about adding colors to her sketches in Photoshop and then animating them, she said.

Adam De Jauregui, 17, a Rancho Vista senior, said he wants to get into the video game industry and create characters. He participated in a summer multimedia program through the college and in spring will take more classes at Temecula Valley High.

The visit was a boon for students.

They “need to see themselves on a college campus. They need to see this and it’s not ‘alien’ and that people here care,” said Patty Doody, a Rancho Vista instructor who brought 37 students to campus.

Mt. San Jacinto’s Smith, who returned to the classroom at least seven times to learn more, emphasized that especially in fields where technology changes at light speed, lifelong learning is the standard.

Reach Gail Wesson at 951-763-3455 or gwesson@PE.com

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